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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time

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